Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

this exists it is called thinking

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

@darthbluesky.bsky.social can you help me boost my foster dog Falafel (Chattanooga TN, we do out-of-state adoptions) cause look at her

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

new foster dog alert!

Did Elon Musk *really* do a Nazi salute? It doesn't matter. He knew how it would be interpreted, and as with Trump, the intent is beside the point. He did it for one reason: To show us that he could, and that there's nothing we can do to stop him. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-musk-...

Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now

“While blues legends sold authenticity and jazz greats fell under the spell of hard drugs, “reincarnated” frames a taste for violence as our generation’s manifestation of the fleshly urges church leaders denounce whenever secular music is deemed demonic.”

Lilith loves to frolic!

this is my #1 best promo for fostering animals. Check out Lilith on Sunday when I met her at the shelter for the first time vs. snuggling on my lap after 1 hour at home with me today. I will never stop doing this, it is the greatest joy in my life.

the smosh potato is less of a recipe and more of a technique for getting a potato with a creamy center and cronchy edges there are many ways to make these such as boiling and pan frying or roasting and deep frying but here is one that uses just one cookie sheet and a ziploc bag for minimal cleanup

I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!

Somehow Palpatine returned

I obviously do not think the state should murder an innocent man but to be clear I also don't think the state should murder guilty men either

if you think rfk jr is hot you’re probably also sexually attracted to the horse in guernica

Olivia lays her head on RFK Jr’s chest as they both drift off to sleep. the brain worm slithers out from his ear, tenderly kisses her on the cheek, and returns into his head.

wrote a thing idly after the kids went to bed

Hooooooly shitballs. I'll have to bookmark most of this for later but in briefly checking it out hooooooooooly shit they're so weird so weird SO WEIRD www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob2n...

i’ll be honest i never realized how much i have in common with expensive dogfood

YES— this is stuff that middle-American, run-of-the-mill liberals are supportive of, but the legacy media have been so successful at convincing them otherwise that some of them don’t even realize they support them

not like us kidz bop

exactly, some people need to look at sunsets others of us need to look at Manny Jacinto

why is tiktok trying to get me to do an exercise routine that makes you cry. why would I desire that.

these are the shelter dogs I am most in love with at the moment, please join me in admiring their sweet faces

“they made her look so unintelligent” watch how hard that doesn’t matter.

story land, route 16, glen, new hampshire, 1995

my kingdom for a WRITTEN tutorial on literally anything

jason isbell needs to get on here, he’s the only thing i miss about twitter

Song of Solomon, Morrison Autobiography of Red, Carson Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky All My Puny Sorrows, Toews Eugene Onegin, Pushkin The Cabin at the End of the World, Tremblay Hour of the Star, Lispector As I Lay Dying, Faulkner Parable of the Sower, Butler